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*Scroll down to The Heats to see the live updates*
The Chase has arrived at the beach of Dumps in Brandon Bay on Ireland's battered west coast. The conditions are as gnarly as expected, vertical faces of a mast and a half high out back and early reports are suggesting that the wind is perhaps pushing just over the 60 knot mark already. With forecasts predicting the wind and waves to pick up be sure to stay tuned for all the latest throughout the day right here on boardseeker.com.
The Competition
With 10 minute man on man heats the action should be thick and fast. If you notice any problems with the Red Bull Storm Chase website then stay tuned here as we keep bringing you the action as it happens, be aware that the RBSC website could be down due to over-usage, no doubt they are on the case and it should be back up soon – www.redbullstormchase.com/mission-1
The Heats LIVE
After changing spot, the afternoon saw the 10 riders face each other one last time. The conditions required the jet-skis to tow them out through the wind shadows that were created by the cliffs at the top of Hell's Gate. Once at the waves, the winds gusted between 40 and 60 knots with mast to mast and a half high waves. Moves of round 3 were perfect 360's, huge backies and rocket airs that saw the guys pushing 50ft+. Today windsurfing saw new boundaries as Swift stomped the most perfect pushloop forward ever witnessed by PWA Head judge Duncan Coombs, at the same time the competitors were reaching new heights as they tried to out step each other on the altimeter scale! In the end only six can advance to mission number two.
The Heli is in the house. We can't work out what is more incredible, the shots that these guys will get or being able to fly this in a force 10!
Decision has been made already to move to Hell's Gate, first possible start will between 14.30-14.45. Stay tuned for further updates in the meantime.
Whilst a short break is taken for the judges to decide whether to move to Hells Gate or not, the GoPro Expression Session is on. Allowing the team to capture some epic footage for the crew to present in the video round up later.
Heat 5 – Kenneth vs Boujmaa
The wind has built throughout the last couple of heats and is back up to 60 knots or so. Bouj shows his usual flare and guts with super tweaked table tops on the way out and the way in! Meanwhile Kenneth sticks a pushloop and Bouj tries to answer with a wet pushloop forward. Super high one handed backloop from Kenneth.
Heat 4 – Danny vs Julien
The two open with backies, Julien sticks his, Bruch going down. Bruch shows quite a bit of repetition by stomping one backie after another. Julien will be coming in with a red back after crashing a huge stalled forward, pulling the sail shut insanely late. A reported 7 second rocket air from Bruch!! Fairly quiet from Julien during the last minutes of the heat whilst Bruch pushes hard for a backside 360.
Heat 3 – Robby vs Victor
Big moves in this heat. Victor opens with a huge forward only to be answered by Robby's perfect pushloop forward! We have a feeling that is the first one on Irish shores… Head Judge Coombs states: "I think that's the highest, most perfect, controlled push-forward I've ever seen". That'll be a 10 then, if not a 12! It's not over yet as Victor pulls a Felix Baumgartner on us with a backie that should really require a parachute for landing – enormous! RBSC – 'Swift changing boards, I think that push-forward landing punished the first one…'.
Heat 2 – Leon vs Thomas
Thomas Traversa is on fire. Landing incredible backside 360's on the wave face as well as a couple backies. The conditions are a little lighter adn smaller in this one showing how squally it is in Ireland today. Traversa goes on to get a full house from the judges, RBSC state that "to put that into perspective, Brawzinho landed a perfect goiter but received only 8.5". Leon seems to be struggling on his hunt for waves in this heat but has stucka few moves.
Heat 1 – Josh vs Brawzinho
Josh Angulo keeping it fairly tame during the start of the heat, whilst Brawzinho goes out with only one goal – to win. Big backies by Braw in the slightly lighter winds (around 40 knots) but his custom 3.4 makes his 75l board look huge. Braw continues with backies but as the sun shows its face briefly he sticks a nice tweaked pushloop. Angulo charging around for ramps and not getting too lucky. The heat comes to an end as we move on into the next.
The draw for round 2
Quotes from the riders – twitter.com/rbstormchase
These words just coming in from the riders.
Angulo: 'It was scarier than the scariest we could've imagined'
Robby Swift: 'It's either more than 60-knots, or the wind is so much denser it feels much stronger. It was scariest walking down the beach!'
Between the rounds
A few minutes break now for the competitors to warm up and the judges to tabulate what just happened! Check out the boys in the bus grinning like children, Victor, Leon and Bouj (at the back, supporting a brilliant hood over all that hair of his).
Heat 5 – Kenneth vs Dany
Again rocket airs are order of the day as Bruch boosts an enormous one, only to be answered by Kenneth's very own. The waves are attracting some pretty cool moves on the way in. Kenneth trying a taka. Backies and big airs are still on the cards and Bruch tries to go even higher. The water state out there is extreme to another level, the wind is mixing the rain and the sea into one smoky mist the whips the competitors bare skin completely raw. Survival begins to play a part yet still these guys push themselves to the absolute limits.
Heat 4 – Boujmaa vs Julien
Julien and Bouj fight hard with a lot of ballsy moves. Julien pulling table-top forwards, backies, one handed backies, whilst Bouj clocks up one of the highest moves of the day with a table-top forward combo, pretty insane! Both are out there with full guns blazing, a tough call as the heat draws to an end. Julien shows a lot of variation and skill even in these ferocious conditions, perhaps it is something to do with the lucky shorts he is wearing over his wetsuit…
Heat 3 – Robby vs Brawzinho
Quote from RBSC – Brawzinho has custom Goya 3.2 and Swift a borrowed NeilPryde 2.9 from local Rob Jones.
More moves in this heat as both sailors push for backies and push loops. Braw launches into a HUGE rocket air and they both make the most of the waves all the way to the inside. Swift just slightly over rotating a pushie but sails away.
Heat 2 – Thomas vs Victor
Traversa before heat: "I'm nervous, I don't know what to expect, we'll see. I didn't watch the first heat".
Traversa at just 60 kilos launched into a huge rocket air straight off the beach pretty much. Victor replies with his own then Traversa bails from one over 40ft! Some riding going on, with a few backside smacks from Traversa, he is such a featherweight but with so much control!
Heat over, just in time as a hail storm tears through the competition area. RBSC is waiting for riders to return to the beach before allowing the next heat.
Heat 1 – Leon vs Josh
Leon opted for a 3.3 whilst Josh took a 3.6. Backies are order of the day for Leon as he launches into one after the other, pushing 40ft but mixing up the landings a little. Josh sticks some good moves too and some very clean riding. The conditions are crazy out there and it seems like just pulling a move is worth points!
At First Light
Huge waves out back and a pushing tide to pick things up later in the day.
The Travel
An impressive journey by many but no more so than Brawzinho and Robby Swift. Robby totalled an impressive 39 hours of back to back flights to get from Chile to Ireland, whilst Brawzinho flew all the way from the Marshall Islands to be here for this one day of action. No doubt many of the guys will be staying for a few extra days as the storm fronts will lash the west coast for the next week.


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Cool post. Very nerdy I must say. Philip will like it.
What frugal lessons can we learn from the demoscene?
The "demoscene" loosely refers to an underground computer art movement where the emphasis is on creating amazing-but-compact demonstrations — hence the name. Modern geeks and deals have been married as early as the advent of tech flea markets, but the demoscene is special.
The demoscene has illicit roots grounded in software piracy. Basically, an individual or small team would go beyond "cracking" a game to break its copy protection: they'd also put a visual tag, or "loader", before the game started. Like real-world graffiti, these served as the mark of a demo group, often containing text shoutouts of respect and inside jokes.
As the form matured, demos became strong enough to serve as their own standalone shows, and conventions were hosted around them. The amazing thing about so many of these demos — and what I mean by "compact demonstrations" — is they were extremely resource-light, relying on insanely deep knowledge of making a computer do tricks not envisioned with its original hardware specs: faux 3D on primitive hardware, extending the screen borders, etc.
What does all of this have to do with making smart choices saving money? Here are 3 effective lessons we can apply from the demoscene:
1. Be resourceful yet fun
In an era when 500 gigabyte hard drives are common, it's easy to slack off and not be astute about tidying your files. The demoscene has long prided itself on tapping into the potential of severe constraints: even today, there are demogroups working on old computers like the Commodore 64 and Amiga, squeezing surprisingly tasty juice out of their ancient husks. There are "64K" competitions which means your demo must fit into 64 kilobytes or less. To put that in perspective, that's like a drop in the bucket of a modern PC's memory.
With such tight limits, every single line of code must be put to good use. Anything nonessential is trimmed; techniques like procedural generation (using math to create graphics on the fly, rather than prerendered) are employed wisely. And there almost always is music, too! It may not sound like Top 40 radio hits, but is carefully crafted with catchy melodies.
If you can do more with the same resources, you should. A sage bargain hunter strives to save money and scrimps when needed. But that's not to be mistaken for a miser who gets little pleasure out of life because their tightfisted spending is depriving them of fun. Even if you're making meals on a budget, infusing them with color and zest is preferable to sulking over gruel. In much the same way, some of the greatest demoscene stars came from war-torn parts of Eastern Europe, where not only did they not have access to the latest Western technology, they had an overall lower quality of life to contend with. And yet, you might not know that when gazing at the vibrant spectrum of their demos.
It's not enough to save. To prosper from your healthy habits, you must enjoy, and flourish.
2. Tight teams help you win
Many of the greatest demos were made by a triad: a coder, an artist, and a musician. There are edge cases and exceptions to this, sure, but these 3 archetypes show up time and time again. The individuals may possess overlapping skills, but having a core group enforces both trust and helps you catch mistakes you might miss on your own — especially if you're groggy from hours of creative spelunking "inside the machine".
Even veteran deal mavens are prone to making errors like forgetting a product's predicted lifecycle and buying it just before the newest model is introduced, when prices drop on the prior line. Lacking that knowledge can be costly, and with so much of a dataglut on the Net, it can be tough to pinpoint what you need before you spend. That's why you need someone who knows your tastes, and even with machine-assisted matching, there's no substitute for human intuition. Hot deals are often time-sensitive and stock-limited, so while polling the masses (e.g., on Twitter) can be useful, keep in mind they're looking for the same deals as you. It's a dog-eat-deals world out there.
That's why in addition to tools, it helps on several fronts to have a "tight team" when dealhunting. It doesn't have to be a formal group with a name (although like superheroes, that can be fun). Just some friends you've organically come to trust over the course of multiple purchases, who you'll watch out for in kind. Another plus: you could save when doing "bulk buys" for stuff your team wants, instead of having to hunt down a stranger. (But we're all strangers in the beginning, so get started!)
3. Iterate, iterate, iterate your tools
"Iterate" is sort of a geeky word, but it basically means to do something over and over again. Not just the same thing, but to build on an established base. Many demos do this: for instance, a landscape that continues to unfold across the screen, or you may be familiar with fractal art you can infinitely zoom into.
Digital data is easy to copy, and it was through rampant swapping of floppy disks that demos proliferated: not just as as entertainment, but for the benefit of eager demosceners-to-be who'd deconstruct and reverse-engineer what they got their hands on. The more promising novices would then take the bulk of what they learned and add a twist to it — an iteration, like DNA mutating — before sending it back out into the wild. This predates the "remix culture" we have today, and it continues as a parallel strain of computer-based collaboration.
This is relevant when you're looking for deals because you'll swiftly discover that the good stuff gets snapped up incredibly fast unless you have the right tools and practice how to use them: whether it's email alerts, eBay auction watchers like JBidwatcher, or RSS aggregators that show you what's hot today (on that note, remember you can subscribe to Wise Bread!), there are always new tools to help you save money. As you get comfortable with some, stay hungry for what's on the horizon or you'll miss out. Keep trying new tools and simply stick with what gets you results.
The same is true for deals sites' development. It's an amusing game to observe which fundamental "I need that too!" features spread from one social media hub to another. A fine example is RetailMeNot on the left-hand side — how many of those various features have you seen on other sites? (I'm rather fond of whenever a site has a Mac Dashboard Widget.)
Tools aren't the end, they're part of the process, and they reduce the distance from you to the deals.
Further reading
The above is but a cursory dip into the demoscene, but if you're curious, I highly recommend FREAX - Volume 1, which is an exquisite and in-depth story of the the early demo days, including the personalities who shaped its growth. It's riddled with typographical errors but there's a lot of humor, and the art is gorgeous. As this is a fairly esoteric text, I don't know of any notable discounts on it, but I prize my copy. There are many connections between 80s retrocomputing and modern dealhunting.
Have you spotted connections between another "scene" and our dealhunting culture?
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What a FANTABULOUS Mother's Day Weekend I had! pDaddy done did outdone himself this year! From Flowers and a new Garmin watch on Friday (perfect timing for my 1st 5k run), to being one of my cheerleaders and biggest supporter for my 5K on Saturday and booking our brunch aboard a Riverboat Cruise on Sunday, he made everything, within his control, absotutely, perfect. And of course, God lent him a hand and made the weather perfect as well…Surrounded by all my loves and girls behaving (for the most part), I couldn't have asked for anything more! Of course, it would have been nice to have OUR mom's around, but mine's in the Philippines tending to her school and pDaddy's is back in NJ, but will be here next month! Still, one of the best weekends in a while…and apparently, I have one more surprise in store on Saturday…don't know…not asking… lol
Wordful Wednesday Link Up:
On Me (Thank you InStyle Magazine for your "Neutral Know-How"…Blush (petal) & Olive do look wonderful together!):
Blush Ruffle/Tier Top: Rue 21 :: Cargo Skinnies: Mossimo – Target (2011) :: Denim Jacket: Guess Jeans (2006) :: Wedges: A2 by Aerosoles "Plush Above" in Tan via Kohl's :: Sunglasses: Michael Kors via TJMaxx :: Satchel: Steve Madden via TJ Maxx :: Pearl Necklace: Local Store :: Watch: Michael Kors .
On Beans:
(Blue) Dress: Hand-Me-Down from her cousin | Denim Jacket: Cherokee – Target | Sandals: Xhiliaration – "Heidi" from Target | Headband: Target | Sunglasses: Disney Little Mermaid – Walgreens
On Razz:
Pink Shirt: Old Navy (s/s 2011)
Gray/Silver Skirt: Old Navy (s/s 2011)
Pink Sweater: Target
Sneakers: Sketchers Twinkle Toes via Kohl's
Sunglasses: Walmart
On Shrimpie:
Dress: Beans' from 2005 ..::.. Sweater: Ralph Lauren – gifted ..::.. Sandals: Xhilaration "Jumper" – Target ..::.. Sunglasses: Dora via Walgreens (site only has Winnie the Pooh, but same style)
hmmm…now…what delimeter should I use? "::", "|", "..::.." or just going onto the next line? I know, such problems in my life! hehehe


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First Looks: Sony Ericsson LiveView
First Looks: Sony Ericsson LiveView
An Accessory Fit for a Spy
Bluetooth accessories like the Sony Ericsson LiveView complement a primary device; in this case, it gives you remote control of your Android device, leaving it sitting snugly in your pockets. With its 1.3-inch OLED display, the LiveView resembles the face of a digital watch and it can even be mounted onto an elastic band and strapped to your wrist.
Navigating through the menu on the LiveView is done via two physical buttons at the top corners. The power button is obvious through its marking, while the other wasn't too obvious as the pairing and action button. Controlling the LiveView can be quite iffy, given the petite nature of its screen. The inaccessibility of these buttons and the overly sensitive touch controls didn't help matters.
Hooking up
Connecting the LiveView to your Android phone requires the LiveView App, which is downloadable from Google Android Market. Though it is a Sony Ericsson accessory, the LiveView supports Android devices from Samsung, HTC and Motorola. While we managed to connect a HTC Desire to the LiveView, the connection was spotty, even after an update was performed on the accessory through its microUSB port.
The LiveView App is also used to customize the tiles that are displayed on the LiveView. In doing so, you can enable the LiveView to access messages, emails, or RSS feeds from the paired phone. Further customization can be done through third party plugins, which may allow access to specific apps. The LiveView even gets the current time from your Android device, so unpairing or moving it out of range leaves it in a state of standby with no functional features.
The upside of this accessory came from its notification and music controller. The former gives you an immediate notice of any incoming calls or messages, which we often miss with the phone in our pocket. Remotely controlling your music player is also very useful, allowing us to pause, skip or play tracks without digging through our pockets for the phone. You'll have to keep the LiveView charged daily, as we soon realized when we put it through the test.
Final Thoughts
As an accessory for your Android device, the LiveView should work, albeit with some hiccups. Sold as part of the Sony Ericsson Fitness Experience Pack, you'll get the LiveView accessory, a wrist strap, and an armband phone holder. Features such as phone notifications and a music player remote control are nifty, but considering how we had a difficult time using the accessory (and its dodgy connection), the S$118 spent on this accessory could be put to better use.


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|Dr. X, posing in the shadows to look creepy.
In investigating a series of cannibalistic murders, police have a strong hunch that the killer must come from Dr. Jerry Xavier's Academy of Surgical Research. "If you're just looking for someone to hang suspicion on," Dr. X (Lionel Atwill) says to the police investigating the murder, "there's not a man in my faculty that wouldn't come under that heading." Ain't that the truth. The Academy's faculty is a veritable rogue's gallery of psychopaths in the making. We have the one-handed Dr. Wells (Preston Foster), who has recently returned from an expedition to Africa to study cannibalism and keeps a living heart in a jar on his desk. Dr. Haines (John Wray, no relation), who is studying "brain grafting", and the one-eyed Dr. Rowitz (Arthur Edmund Carewe), were shipwrecked together off the coast of Tahita and are suspected of having eaten one of their companions through necessity (did they develop a taste for it?). Rounding out the set we have the crotchety paralytic Dr. Duke (Harry Beresford), who studies the effect of "moon rays" on the mind along with Dr. Haines. Dr. Duke may appear to be the least neurotic of group, but he couples this normalcy with such ill manners that merely to say hello is a personal affront.
Under the guidance of the most accommodating police force in New York history, Dr. X takes his staff to his house on Long Island to conduct his own investigation. As a scientist, he conducts this search exactly as one might expect--through a series of experiments. Actually, his experiment works something like a cross between a polygraph test and Hamlet's play "The Mouse Trap." The suspects are strapped down and hooked up to a device that measures their "blood reaction" while scenes of the murders are acted out in front of them. Naturally, the retelling gets far too real for anyone's taste and threatens to entangle a pair of innocents: Dr. X's daughter Joanne (Fay Wray) and a stowaway reporter (Lee Tracy) looking for a scoop (he'll settle for either a good story or the delicious Joanne).
|Sssynnthetic flessshhh...!!
|Is this the hand of a killer, or of an actor pretending to be a killer? You decide.
The biggest appeal in Doctor X, though, is not its story or acting, although both are solid throughout. No, art director Anton Grot gets the blue ribbon here for his dense, expressionistic set design and masterful use of early color. The Technicolor print was long believed to have been lost, but was discovered in the personal collection of Jack Warner after his death in 1978. UCLA has done a fine restoration, and the film looks fresh and new. The images are murky and strange, engendering in the viewer a sense of malaise long before the plot justifies the fear already created. The sets themselves are many and varied, including a New York waterfront, a brothel, Dr. X's academy, and his Long Island home. Two full sets of "mad scientist" labs are used, one at the academy and one at the mansion, each of which is full of all the bubbling, oversized beakers, big mysterious dials, billowing smoke and buzzing electricity that we know and love.
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I felt uncomfortable following my Flex 3 lessons without a word wrap feature. Turns out that there were none. So in my Google search, I wound up with this:
Looks good. Procedure as follows:
1) On the Menu: Click "Help" / "Software Updates"
2) Click on the "Available Software" tab
3) Insert this url: "http://ahtik.com/blog/eclipse-word-wrap" in the url text field
4) Once the url has been added to the software list, right click and select "install"
5) After following the instructions, Eclipse will ask you to restart
6) In the code, right click and choose: "Virtual Word Wrap"
Your code will now appear in Word Wrap Mode.
Update (2009/05/10): Just one more comment. There is a side-effect where the line numbers display inaccurately in word-wrap mode. The author(Ahti Kitsik) mentions this in his blog as something to be addressed.


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WASHINGTON, DC – The Distilled Spirits Council of the United States (DISCUS) today applauded passage of historic legislation that will extend permanent normal trade relations (PNTR) to Russia, saying the bill will boost already-growing American spirits exports to the world's third-largest spirits market by volume, and sixth-largest by value.
"Russia PNTR has been a long time coming and is critical for American spirits exporters to make further inroads into the expanding Russian market," said Peter Cressy, DISCUS President and CEO. "American distillers can expect to see strong growth in Russia, as well as increased jobs here in the United States, when the President signs the bill."
Russia PNTR Passage Key to Growth in Expanding Market
In recent years, Russia has become an important market for U.S. whiskeys and rums in particular. Russian imports of U.S. distilled spirits totaled $56.3 million in January-September 2012, which represents a 13% increase compared to the previous year, according to Global Trade Atlas, which collects customs information from countries around the world. In fact, over the last decade Russian imports of U.S. spirits have grown 2,254%, albeit from a very small base. In 2011, total spirits imports from the U.S. were valued at $89.2 million, up drastically from 2002 when it was only $3.8 million.
Russia became a member of the World Trade Organization (WTO) on August 22, liberalizing its trade policy and agreeing to abide by globally-recognized principles of fair and transparent trade. However, Cressy pointed out that the lack of PNTR status for Russia has prevented U.S. distillers and other American companies from taking advantage of Russia's commitments and WTO enforcement mechanisms already enjoyed by all other WTO members.
"We applaud members of Congress for passing this important trade legislation and raise a toast to the U.S. officials who negotiated the accession package," Cressy concluded.
H.R. 6156, the Russia and Moldova Jackson-Vanik Repeal and Sergei Magnitsky Rule of Law Accountability Act of 2012, passed the House on November 16 by an overwhelming 365-43 vote. After passing the Senate today by a vote of 92-4, the bill now moves to the President's desk where he is expected to sign it.


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SAN JOSE, Calif. — All California needed was a short trip south to feel right at home in the NCAA tournament.
Allen Crabbe had 19 points and nine rebounds, reserve Robert Thurman scored all 12 of his points on dunks and 12th-seeded California held off fifth-seeded UNLV 64-61 in the second round Thursday.
Buoyed by the crowd support of a strong contingent so close to Berkeley, the Golden Bears (21-11) held the Runnin' Rebels (25-10) without a basket for more than 11 minutes in the second half. Cal turned a tie game into a nine-point lead during that stretch and withstood a late UNLV push for its first tournament win since 2010.
The Rebels rallied to within a point in the final seconds before missed free throws and a costly inbounds pass sealed the loss.
Cal will play Saturday against the Syracuse-Montana winner.
Bryce Dejean-Jones scored 15 points and freshman NBA prospect Anthony Bennett shook off a poor start to finish with 15 points and 11 rebounds for UNLV, which beat Cal 76-75 in Berkeley on Dec. 9. Despite being the higher seed, the selection committee placed the Rebels just 50 miles from Cal's campus — and in the heart of its alumni base in technology-rich Silicon Valley.
Rebels fans filled up about two sections, and the rest of the red-and-black faithful was sprinkled around the blue-and-gold-clad crowd. Cal's contingent let its presence be known, roaring to its feet at every chance.
Justin Cobbs added 13 points and five rebounds, and Richard Solomon had 11 points and seven rebounds while playing with the kind of heart and hustle coach Mike Montgomery has long preached. Cal outshot the Rebels 44 to 32 percent.
The Bears started the second half just the way they did the first — pushing the pace, swarming around in a zone defense and swishing shots with ease to go ahead 37-31 on a 3-pointer by Cobbs.
Just as he did in the first half, UNLV coach Dave Rice called timeout to stop the momentum. Katin Reinhardt's tying shot from beyond the arc capped six straight points for the Rebels before the momentum switched sides again.
Cobbs and Crabbe led Cal's 8-0 spurt to go up 45-37, with both guards converting layups through traffic. Bennett made three free throws after getting fouled by Crabbe before Cobbs answered with another 3-pointer, getting a hard pat on his backside by Crabbe from the bench.
The Rebels then missed 16 shots in a row from the field until Mike Moser — who was hurt early in the first matchup — put back a rebound with 5:16 remaining. The tip ended a drought of 11:14 without a basket, and perhaps even more stunning was that Cal only led 52-46.
Thurman alone almost topped UNLV's output. The senior, who had 12 points over his previous five games, had almost as many field goals (five) in the second half as the entire Rebels team (eight).
The 6-foot-10 forward finished all of his baskets for dunks and bullied Bennett — a projected lottery pick in the NBA draft — on both ends. Bennett and the rest of the Rebels started to find their rhythm late — too late.
Bennett's layup sliced Cal's lead to 56-52 with 2:50 to play. After a video review, officials called Cobbs for a flagrant-1 foul for excessive contact on Dejean-Jones' layup attempt. He made one of two free throws to bring UNLV within five.
Solomon's dunk stretched Cal's lead to 60-53 before the Bears broke down and gave up five straight points, including a three-point play that started when Bennett outmuscled Crabbe for a layup to slice Cal's cushion to 60-58 with 14.4 seconds remaining.
Cobbs made one of two free throws, then Anthony Marshall hit one of two at the line after Cal intentionally fouled him to prevent a tying 3-pointer. After Cobbs missed one of two again, Marshall hit a pair to trim Cal's lead to 62-61.
The Rebels missed a chance to foul Cobbs and let precious seconds tick away before wrapping up Crabbe with 1.6 seconds remaining. The Pac-12 Player of the Year made both shots, and Solomon intercepted the inbounds pass around midcourt to put the game away.
Cal became the second 12th-seeded Pac-12 team to win in San Jose. Earlier in the day, conference tournament champion Oregon beat fifth-seeded Oklahoma State 68-55 in a second-round game in the Midwest Region.
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Kate Greenaway is a Real Pro
It seems that not a day goes by without our reading yet another story about yet another creative way George Bush Jr. is attempting to eradicate an American woman's right to have an abortion. Listening to talk of Supreme Court stacking, and Roe vs. Wade in peril, it is easy to think that it is the law which dictates who has access to an abortion. In truth, the law is only one piece of the puzzle.
Kate Greenaway is the Canadian director of Medical Students for Choice. Like any pro-choice group, they are picketed by anti-choice groups who favour signs emblazoned with graphic pictures of "abortions"."
"Yes." Greenaway nods. "They do demonstrate outside of our meetings with these photographs of dismembered babies. Do they not realize we're medical students? We know what it looks like, and it doesn't look like that. That's not reality."
I'm interviewing Greenaway in our mutual home-base of Halifax, Nova Scotia, the day before her impending trip to Edmonton, a trip she is taking in order to spend the latter half of her summer -- what should be her time away from studying and interning -- learning how to perform an entirely common procedure not covered by her medical student curriculum. Abortion. I'm hoping she'll be able to tell me what is and isn't currently happening to Canadian women's right to choice.
What's the biggest news in reproductive freedom for Canadian women right now?
The bad news is that all trials working towards legalizing mifepristone (a.k.a. RU-486) have stopped here, placing us way behind in providing women with medical abortions. The US legalized mifepristone years ago - it seems incredible that we could be behind one of the most conservative nations in the west. I think the best news we have right now is the acceptance of emergency contraception in Canada as a back up for birth control. Most doctors are willing to prescribe this method of pregnancy prevention, and we are looking towards having it available over the counter as well.
Is a woman's legal right to abortion at risk in this country?
I don't think the legal status of abortion in Canada is going to change any time soon. Public opinion strongly supports abortion remaining legal.
Should we be concerned about access to abortion, then?
It is not the legality that is at risk, it's the availability of services.
In many cases, our medical schools and hospitals are not offering abortion training for future physicians. This will make legal right to abortion will meaningless, as there will be no providers. This is the real problem that I see facing Canadian women at this time. Women in rural areas may have difficulty finding a pro-choice doctor, let alone a provider. The shortage of trained providers and/or facilities which will not perform abortions results in women having to travel long distances to obtain care. Often, she will often have to pay to obtain services once she has travelled, since some provinces won't allow billing for abortion services. Women often discover that their family physicians are pro-life, and won't refer them to the appropriate doctors.
Isn't a doctor obligated to refer a patient for an abortion?
The simple answer is yes, but there are ways around it. The Canadian Medical Association has a policy that says if a doctor has an objection to counselling and referring women for an abortion s/he has to inform the patient and send her to some one who will make the referral. So doctors have to at least tell women what their options are. Its appalling what some doctors will do to trick their patients though. Some will say that abortion is not legal, or that they have referred them for an abortion when in fact their files have been hidden. This is totally illegal - but very few women who have been through a run-around like that would want to go through a court-case as well. The Physicians for Life group like to pretend that this issue of referral is only a matter of competing rights - the woman vs. her doctor. Somewhere along the line it got forgotten that doctors actual have a DUTY to serve their patients, and they are not in a position to impose their reality, which isn't so real.
If medical students are not being trained in this are, then how does one become an abortion provider?
I'm still working on that. The skills of medical providers are often learned through apprenticing, so the idea would be to find someone to teach us the techniques. Currently, we have to seek this out ourselves because it is not included in our gynaecology rotations in undergraduate medicine. Medical Students for Choice has developed a program of month long internship for medical students in the US and Canada who want to learn abortion techniques. This program matches up interested students with physicians who are willing to teach. This is the first step for us in becoming providers. From there, we can continue our training by seeking out pro-choice residencies.
What is Medical Students for Choice, and why is it important?
Medical Students for Choice is a group of 7000 medical students across the US and Canada who are working towards improving school curriculums to include reproductive health training, especially abortion training. Until this group was formed 10 years ago, there were almost no medical schools in North America offering abortion training. This is changing through the work of the group, as each campus group challenges its own administration to include women's health in the curriculum. This group makes me think that change is possible. It is extremely frustrating to be faced with a largely unsupportive administration and apathetic student body. Medical Students for Choice has shown me that there are a number of activists out there who are determined to keep women's reproductive freedom top-priority. It is very inspiring.
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Be Engaged: How to Participate
Learn social media by using it — blogs, Delicious, Facebook, Flickr, Foodspotting, Foursquare, Google+, Linkedin, Pinterest, Slideshare, Twitter, YouTube, and Wikipedia — to learn and share info about indigenous culture.
- Delicious: Follow the Indigenous Peoples Week Stack, and suggest a link.
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Our current July/August 2012 issue contains a story about the Pyramid Lake Indian Reservation, which was voted a Nevada "treasure" in the recent Discover Your Nevada campaign. Read the story here, and learn how the Nevada Governor is taking an active role.
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A couple of weeks ago my daughter got married. She was a beautiful bride and it was a perfect day.
For November in Ohio the weather was gorgeous. It was sunny and in the 50's.
This is a picture of my daughter, Tonya, and her friend Amanda. Amanda's mother is having cancer surgery on Tuesday. I got busy sewing and made Amanda's mother this prayer quilt. I mailed it to her on Friday and she received the quilt on Saturday. I think Sudoku Quilts are always very pretty.
Even Sherry likes the quilt.Louis Chiquette had a wonderful description of the meaning of the prayer shawl. Louis was kind enough to let me use this meaning to work for my prayer quilts.
I went Black Friday shopping to Good Wives Co. Quilt Shop. I purchased these two pieces of fabric. I love this kind of Black Friday shopping.
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I still need to get used to my extended travel time.
Fujisawa is my furtherest school from Tokyo, so I have to plan accordingly to get there on time.
Even more so today because I only have about 2000 yen in my wallet where virtually all of that will go towards my train travel today.
Probably the biggest expense (after rent) living here in Japan is the cost of train travel. Pay top dollar to stand on a train for 30-40 minutes. Yes, please!
First, I wanted to go to an ATM to get some more of that yen. ATM hours are like the banks, open until 3pm, but still useable after that incurring an after hours charge.
Then, more importantly I wanted to get to Fujisawa in plenty of time to get this four litre bottle of Green Shochu. Beautiful isn't it? I got it at the Bic Camera, an electronics store!
This cost 2580 yen. Alcohol in Japan is quite a bargain. Even a normal bottle of Smirnoff Vodka is about 1000 yen (AUS $10). Damn the Aussie alcohol taxes.
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Detectives investigating the murder of a "vulnerable" 33-year-old who was found with more than 100 separate injuries have renewed an appeal for help from the public.
James Attfield, of East Bay, Colchester died last Saturday after he was found with serious injuries in Castle Park just before 5.45am.
A 38-year-old man, from Colchester, was arrested on Wednesday and later released without charge.
Essex Police spoke to about 50 people at the murder scene last night and said they want to trace a man and a woman who would have been sitting on a bench in the park at about 11.30pm on Friday night.
Mr Attfield, who suffered a severe brain injury in a road accident four years ago, died in Castle Park, Colchester, last Saturday morning.
A post-mortem examination revealed 102 separate wounds on his arms, hands, back, neck and head.
Detector Chief Inspector Simon Werrett, who is leading the investigation, said today that extensive investigations are continuing in a bid to find the killer.
Police were at the murder scene from about 9pm last night until dawn this morning, talking to people who might have been in the park at the same time last Friday.
Mr Werrett said: "We spoke to about 50 people during the course of the night and we have been given some useful information that is currently being followed up.
"We also want to trace a man and a woman who would have been sitting on a bench in the park, by the lake. The only description is they were white and may have been smoking. This would have been about 23.30 on Friday evening.
"We also want to hear from anyone who may know someone who returned home early last Saturday morning with blood-covered clothing which they may have disposed of quickly."
Mr Werrett said that forensic investigations and searches were continuing in the park today and that officers were also searching a council tip for the contents of bins from the park that were emptied at the refuse site during last week.
Mr Attfield was a father of five, who had not been in contact with his children since he was severely injured when he was struck by a car.
His mother, Julie Finch, described her son as a "bit of a loner" who was "in the process of rebuilding his life" when he died.
CCTV showing Mr Attfield's last known movements was released by detectives on Monday as they appealed to the public for help in finding out who attacked him and why.
The film shows him at the River Lodge pub in Middleborough, Colchester. He left there at 10.09pm, leaving behind most of his drink, which his family say was unusual for him.
Police said they do not know where he went between leaving the pub and being found injured in Castle Park at 5.45am on Saturday.
At a press conference earlier this week Ms Finch spoke emotionally of how her son had battled to get his life back on track following the car accident.
She said the family ''gave him his independence'', adding that they ''didn't fuss over him, because that wasn't what he wanted and it wouldn't have helped him''.
Ms Finch said she last spoke to Mr Attfield ''face to face'' last year, "about October time''.
When asked whether Mr Attfield was in contact with his five children, Ms Finch said: ''After the accident he sort of had memory loss, and sort of wiped out basically six years before the accident.''
She said as they introduced information to him on the advice of doctors that ''he did get his children mixed up and think they were his brothers and sisters''.
Ms Finch added: ''Because the children were so young and he didn't really r emember them, he hasn't had any contact since the accident, no.''
She said her son was not a stranger to her in later years, adding: ''He knew we were always there.''
She said he wanted to be independent and lead his own life.
''He was always very quiet, and even as a child he was always a bit... cowardly, if you like.''
Mr Attfield was a karaoke fan and supported MK Dons football club.
Reading from a statement, Ms Finch said: ''Jim was well liked and polite - everyone always had a good word to say about him.
''I would ask the public for any information they may have that could help the police with their inquiries. This to me seems a senseless and frenzied attack on a gentle, vulnerable young man.
''Please, if anyone saw my son on Friday, please come forward. Someone, somewhere knows something. No matter how insignificant you may think it is, pleas e inform the police.''
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Around the time that he was in rehab about a year ago, Aerosmith singer Steven Tyler had considered the idea of being an "American Idol" judge. Then last July, as Aerosmith was in France for a tour, then-"Idol" judge Kara DioGuardi sent Tyler a text message about the subject.
"I responded, 'How were the ratings?'" laughed Tyler in an interview with Billboard.com. "And then my curiosity started coming up... I live by what Dylan said: [sings] 'Gather 'round people throughout the land, and don't criticize what you don't understand.' So I started asking questions and found out what was going on in the inside... I always thought J-Lo would be good. I thought that would be the perfect matchup."
America will soon decide whether Tyler will match up well with his fellow judges Jennifer Lopez and Randy Jackson when the new season of "American Idol" premieres Wednesday on FOX.
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The veteran rocker admitted to Billboard that he previously didn't watch the music competition show. He warmed up to it when he noticed similarities between the stories of the "Idol" contestants and his own life, such as singing in churches and appearing in Off-Broadway.
"I was wrong, because what inspired me? Church, and the lunchroom in high school. I got beaten up for having long hair…and all that stuff. But I'd show them in the lunchroom. And this is America's lunchroom. Everyone turns [the TV] on after dinner and watches "American Idol.""
On what he is looking for in an "Idol" hopeful, Tyler told Billboard: "That certain something which can't be defined…And whatever it is that magic comes from, it's the unknown. You can't put your finger on it. You can't say, 'Well, sing in church and you'll be a great singer.' It's an unspoken thing."
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|Gypsi works with her trainer, Kelly Jayne, to perfect her back flip.
For a six year old, Gypsi's athleticism is unbelievable. She has the best back tail walk out of all of the dolphins, dives higher with each day, and is mastering new behaviors that dolphins are taught at an older age. Being the daughter of Tursi, our Flipper daughter, and Rainbow, a jock of a dolphin, it's no surprise that Gypsi enjoys staying active.
The newest behavior Gypsi has begun to learn is her back flip. To do a back flip, a dolphin flies out of the water, does a somersault, and completes a full 360 turn. Each of the dolphins at Dolphin Research Center, that knows how to do a flip, has put their own spin on their back flip. Some fall back into the water face first, while others lead with their tail. It's interesting to see how each unique dolphin does the same action.
Gypsi, who takes after her athletic parents, loves to give every new endeavor 110 percent. With her trainer, Kelly Jayne, Gypsi always works hard when it's time to practice back flips. They'll try it from different areas of the lagoon, and various heights.
At the beginning of a session, Kelly Jayne stood on the sea lion boardwalk, which is several feet higher than the dock. She carried an extra long target pole with her, which Gypsi uses to determine how high she needs to get out of the water to do the entire turn by smacking it with her tail flukes. From the boardwalk, Gypsi had a bit of a hard time reaching the target. Kelly Jayne gave her several attempts to reach the target pole from that height. Then, they moved over to a lower dock to continue the session.
As soon as Gypsi saw Kelly Jayne reach the target pole out over the lagoon, she knew she was going to hit the target. She was given the hand signal for back flip, dove down into the water to gather speed, flew out of the lagoon, and smacked the target pole so hard it flew out of Kelly Jayne's hands. As the bar took to the air, Kelly Jayne raised her arms over her head to make sure it didn't hit her as gravity pulled it down.
Once it had safely returned to the ground, Kelly Jayne and the rest of her audience laughed intensely. Gypsi had decided she was going to get the target pole and that's exactly what she did! Yet again this little one proved that her determination goes far beyond any behavior.
Gypsi still has work to do on her back flip, but we're certain she'll have it down in no time. This little girl doesn't give up. If she continues to take after her parents, Gypsi will amaze people with her agile body and perseverance for a long time.


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The Wallstreet Journal is pretty good to, IMO.
http://www.adfontesmedia.com/media-bias-chart-3-1-minor-updates-based-constructive-feedback/I always found this chart somewhat useful.
That's exactly why my idea of intellectual luxury these days is reading the Economist on my back deck, with a good Real Ale in hand #camrakarma
I think to call this a media issue in the general sense is wrong.There has been a split within the media-often within a single company-of presenting either hard news, opinion pieces (called opinion-tainment) or a combination of the two.I find that I can still get good hard news from such US sources as ABC News and CBS News and even CNN. Fox and MNBC muddy the water entirely too much and it's harder to glean facts from the mush.I'm not sure if the press was ever pure. When you read articles from the Revolutionary War or the Civil War you find things that will make you cringe with how inaccurate, partisan and highly loaded with misinformation they were.There has always been and always will be a need for readers to use common sense when reading a news article. While there has been a gatekeeping function in the past to keep the press honest through the National NewsMedia Council in Canada and the FCC for broadcast journalism, those agencies are weak and have no jurisdiction over much of what passes for journalism or opinion pieces these days.Trouble is that teaching healthy skepticism isn't one of the subjects taught to our children in school (and I sometimes wonder if it should be because it would probably lead to even more conspiracy theorists)Hate to bring up an old bug-bear of mine but I think religion plays a large part in creating the polarizing differences between us and the tendency to believe opinion pieces that have little basis in fact or reality. When one unhesitatingly accepts "faith" in a dogma that cannot be logically proven (and often has considerable evidence to disprove it) then one becomes susceptible to other ideas, regardless of how logical or illogical they are, as long as they are disseminated by a "trusted" source.These last few decades have created an explosion of media channels that are unregulated, ill informed and sometimes destructive (Goop or Kardashians anyone?). We'll never get the genie back in the lamp. It's a massive flaw within the concept of democracy as we know it. At best we can try to restrict outside influences but we'll never be able to bring back a feeling of unity unless we are faced with an external threat so massive that everyone can agree to oppose it. Apparently Russians hacking your political parties and causing mass misinformation campaigns isn't a big enough problem.
People are not being "dumbed down" by their news outlet of choice.
Look at the chart provided by Infanteer; Fox 'News' falls into the rectangle labelled "nonsense damaging to public discourse." If Fox is someone's only, or even primary, source of news, how can it not be dumbing?
I believed the chart was flawed, but Brad layed it out. So if one is basing their opinion on flawed data, does that not make the opinion flawed also?Asking for a friend.
No. It makes it...well, still an opinion. After all, an opinion is "A view or judgement formed about something, not necessarily based on fact or knowledge." (Ref: Oxford Dictionary - 'Opinion')
The chart is not authoritative, and disproves its own reliability.
….gives one a starting point to start asking the two most important questions any reader can ask after reading something - "Who is the person [or what is the organization] that wrote this?" and "Why are they saying what they are saying?"
I occasionally switch over to Fox News to have my interpretation of the news be challenged.Always an education to see how an event comes out after going through the Fox filter.


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When I was 18 years old, I could not wait to leave my boring, suburban hometown and go to college in the city of Boston. And even though Boston was only a 40-minute drive away, I was convinced that moving to the city had the power to magically transform me—80's movie montage-style—from a chubby, overachieving nerd, into the glamorous, urbane sophisticate I was no doubt destined to become.
I began my metamorphosis by drowning my former Student of the Month persona in gallons of cheap vodka, while my inner good-girl was smothered in a wardrobe of all black.
The strange thing was, I had this one professor who somehow managed to see through my shroud of pretension and catch a glimpse of the real me. Over the next four years, she frequently sought me out, encouraging me to get more involved with the university and become a student leader. I spent four years dodging her requests.
And yet, I found myself oddly tempted by the idea of revisiting my inner go-getter. Because somewhere hidden deep inside of me—though, evidently, not quite as deep or hidden as I thought—was a motivated, hard-working kid who didn't really want to waste her entire life stumbling home from nightclubs at 3:00am. I was enthralled with the idea of a life of reckless hedonism, yet I could no longer ignore the ambition roiling inside of me, the desire to live out my life-long dreams, or at the very least, to get sh*t done.
Shortly after graduation, I began to reconcile these two disparate halves of myself, retaining just enough of my free-spirited proclivities to make life enjoyable, while making sure to carve out enough time to honor my inner over-achiever. I was only 23 when I started to shoot my debut feature film and my former professor was the first one to pull out her checkbook.
I spent the rest of my 20's pining for and simultaneously reenacting my college days. It was the 90's, and my generation pioneered the concept of prolonged adolescence, formerly known as "slacking," which, in turn, spawned the rise of the pervasive Man Child[1] phenomenon of today. Sure, I worked for a living and (mostly) paid my own bills. But none of my friends actually had it quote-unquote together, and as we drank our nights away at the local pool hall, we laughed over the fact that anyone in our youthful, fun-loving age bracket actually gave a crap about bourgeois, old-people things like 401Ks, biological clocks, and marriage.
Then thirty came, hitting us like the slap of a screen door in the three-decker Allston apartment we were too old to still be renting. We certainly weren't kids anymore. We were freaking thirty. So where were our amazing careers? Where were the new cars and engagement rings? In a phrase: What the hell was wrong with us?
For me, turning 30 was the beginning of my adulthood, though true adulthood didn't come until I became a parent, at age 34. Looking back, I don't regret my extended stay in Never-Neverland, and judging from my resume (two features under my belt by age 28 and various TV-producing jobs) I can't exactly call myself a slacker. But I do wonder what I might have achieved if I'd followed the path suggested to me by my old professor and given in to my ambitious side way back when I was still in college. I also wonder what I would have lost by giving up those extra ten years of my youth.
I spent my twenties fighting adulthood with everything I had and my thirties learning to accept it. At 43, I fully embrace my adult self, though there really isn't another choice. Which is why I believe it's entirely possible that New Adulthood is more than just some marketing scam cooked up by YA publishers. I am a New Adult now, for the fourth or fifth time over. Maybe all of us always are.
[1] For more info. on the Man-Child, watch an early Judd Apatow film.
Hilary Weisman Graham is an award-winning screenwriter, filmmaker, and the author of the YA novel Reunited (Simon & Schuster), now available in paperback. http://www.amazon.com/Reunited-Hilary-Weisman-Graham/dp/144243984X/ref%3dsr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1321630047&sr=8-1


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Via James E. Miller of the Ludwig von Mises Institute of Canada,
It's a safe assumption to make that the reelection of Barack Hussein Obama to the office of the United States Presidency will be talked about for decades to come. In history textbooks, 2012 will be referred as a momentous election year when the nation came together and collectively decided to stick with a president through the thick. Like Franklin Roosevelt, Abraham Lincoln, and other "transformative" presidents before him, Obama will be praised for keeping the country together in the midst of economic difficulty. In sum, he will be called a popular figure who triumphed over America's old guard and lead the nation into a new era of solidarity and renewed social tolerance.
The lavishing has already begun with prominent voices on the left like Paul Krugman declaring the "new America" has made Obama their champion. It's being said in major newspapers across the world that this new incarnation of the American experiment is much more attuned to the struggle of minorities and the downtrodden. They went with a President who will use the divine power of the federal government to lift the disenfranchised onto the platform of dignified living.
Like most of what passes for accepted history, this is downright propaganda. The country as a whole wasn't frightened over sudden change by throwing out the incumbent. It wasn't a declaration of a new, more diverse America. Shaping a new destiny wasn't on the casual voter's mind on November 6th.
There is a rational explanation for the President's reelection which doesn't invoke a deep or complex meaning. The only way to explain the outcome is in the simplest and direct prose: the moochers prevailed.
Obama's winning tactic was to do what any respectable man does when he wishes to have something; he bought it. From cell phones and contraceptives to food stamps and unemployment benefits, the Obama administration kept the money flowing to ensure a steady turnout on Election Day. The coup de grâce was painting his opponent as a second coming of Dickens' Scrooge that was ready to cut the voters from their trust funds.
The campaign made no attempt to hide this tactic. In an online video, celebrity Lena Dunham was tapped to extol the virtues of government-supplied birth control. The advertisement was aimed at a younger generation already guaranteed access to their parent's health insurance till they turn 26 (and then morph simultaneously into full grown, self-sufficient adults). The video was a great demonstration of the campaign strategy but it was topped by one woman from Cleveland, Ohio who exemplified the public trough mentality on camera. Commonly referred to as the Obama-phone lady, this woman was so enraptured by her "free" cell phone and other welfare entitlements, she was determined to "keep Obama in president" to use her exact words. Though clearly dimwitted, Ms. Obamaphone was a phenomenal orator of the President's message of goodies in exchange for votes.
Though it worked splendidly, Obama's strategy was not brilliantly crafted from the minds of experts. It was the same bread and circus routine employed by the Romans and applied to modern demographics that relish in a victim-like mentality. Women, the youth, blacks, Hispanics, and the elderly were all catered to through subtle patronization and outright payoffs. It was the same tactic employed by the Roosevelt administration when the New Deal got underway. As journalist John T. Flynn wrote of the popular 32nd president:
It was always easy to sell him a plan that involved giving away government money. It was always easy to interest him in a plan which would confer some special benefit upon some special class in the population in exchange for their votes.
The 2009 auto industry bailout was Obama's great tribute to Roosevelt. By infusing two auto giants with the federal government and still maintaining the appearance of their private ownership, the President convinced a majority in the battleground state of Ohio to put him back in the White House. Criticizing the auto bailout was the last nail in the coffin for Mitt Romney's presidential aspirations.
None of this is to say the election of Romney would have meant the much needed axing of the welfare state and state-subsidized dependency. The army of bureaucrats tasked with cutting checks in the name of kindness would still work to expand their budgets. The wealthy interests the former Massachusetts governor looked to appease were welfare queens in themselves and would likely receive all the state coddling money can buy.
Obama won the election by catering to the worst of all human traits: envy. He demonized the rich while promising to take more of their income and give it out in the form of entitlement payments. Under his presidency, the attitude of the takers will continue to swell as they clamor for more privileges. Anybody who speaks out against the Robin Hood scheme will be called an unconscionable xenophobe and a hater of the poor. The protestant work ethic will slowly be choked into submission through deliberate iconoclasm launched by the political class and their pet media pundits.
The opponents of capitalism will keep blaming money and greed for all the ills of society. They will also keep wearing fashionable clothes and coordinating protests on their smartphones while drinking caffeinated drinks that cost the same as some third world country's average salary. They will scoff at hard work when it's the sweat and labor of generations before them that has created the living standard they enjoy today. Under their tutelage America will be brought into its final form of, as right-wing radio host Rush Limbaugh accurately defined it, a "country of children."
Economist Thomas DiLorenzo sums up the key to Obama's victory in this pungent bit of fine wisdom:
Every time Romney made one of his "let's get the economy going again" speeches extolling the virtues of hard work he terrified the millions of welfare bums and parasites and motivated them more than ever to stand in line for hours to vote for Santa Claus Obama, their "savior" from having to work for a living. (It's always the low opportunity cost class that has the "luxury" of spending half a day or more standing in a line).
With Obama's reelection comes the onward march of American society's degeneration into that of the lazy, bitter masses forever on the lookout to loot a hapless minority still trying to make an honest living. The coming brave new world will be filled to the brim with self-righteous individuals eager to shuffle around the Earth's gifts to achieve some kind of equality. In the process, none of them will produce a lick of good outside of satisfying their own disturbed need to dominate. It will be rule of the inept over the capable. Barack Obama will lead the way. He will be replaced in four years with someone that follows the same doctrine. The collective age of the country will continue to collapse till it reaches just shy of an unclothed infant wailing for succor. Except it will be grown men doing the crying and no one around to feed him because the sensible among us has already left.
The people have spoken and made it so.


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It sounds ghoulish but many of our ancestors accepted the idea as normal: photographing the corpses of family members shortly after their death. During the Victorian era, such photographs were meant to be happy reminders of the life of the deceased person for their families. Death, and personally dealing with death, was prevalent throughout the entire world as epidemics would come quickly and kill quickly. Postmortem photographs not only helped in the grieving process, but often represented the only visual remembrance of the deceased and were among a family's most precious possessions. These were often called "Memento Mori Photography." Memento mori is Latin for "remember that you have to die."
Mother and deceased child
Most Memento Mori photographs were taken within twenty-four hours after death, frequently with living family members posing along with the deceased person. Mothers frequently were photographed while holding a deceased child, perhaps also holding a favored toy of the child. In some cases, photographers would later hand-paint open eyes on the photograph's closed eyelids of the deceased in order to make him or her look awake and alive.
Katie Anna Nagel, aged 17 years, 5 months, and 9 days
Photography was unusual in the late 1800s and family portraits of all family members often were a one-in-a-lifetime event. When a family member died abruptly before such a family photograph had been taken, a photographer often would be called in in a hurry to take a picture of all the family members, including the deceased. The picture would then be displayed on a living room wall or stored in family photo albums for all to view at a later date.
Deceased child with "open eyelids" painted onto the photograph
If you have inherited an old family photo album, look closely at the photographs inside. You may find a few photos of deceased relatives.
Man holding his deceased wife
The Burns Archive has a large collection of Memento Mori Photography that can be viewed online at: http://www.burnsarchive.com/Explore/Historical/Memorial. You can also find many more old postmortem photographs on Pinterest at: https://www.pinterest.com/pin/389209592773603160/.